Rainbow Hair Is Over. This Is the Hair Color You Need to Be Wearing Now.

If you're done with silvery-gray hair and My Little Pony-esque, bright rainbow strands, you might want to take the latest color trend for a test drive. Take a look at opal, a blend of pearl and light pinks, blues, greens, and purples — or a more muted version of all the trends you've been seeing on manes lately.

In a recent interview, colorist Aura Friedman from Sally Hershberger's Downtown Salon told Pop Sugar how she achieves this gem of a hair color: "First, Aura lightens the hair to a pearl hue (the shade just before you reach gray). Then, she layers on bright colors. The result is a washed-out version of the sand art look." And boy, is it beautiful.